The detention of the Takum local government council chairman of Taraba state, Hon Shiban Tikari, by the Nigeria Army has received sympathy from community leaders of the Local Government.
It was leant that the chairman, Hon Shiban Tikari, was arrested alongside the Chief of Hausa (Sarkin Hausawa) of Takum and the clan head of Chamba, the (Mai Agwan Chamba) but the two were later freed out of detention.
It was gathered by the locals that the council boss was tipped in suspicion by the 93 battalion army for the Tuesday attack on the military in Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State.
The community leaders of the local Government Area have asked the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya to immediately direct the release of the council chairman or show course for why he was arrested and detained for over four days without communicating with the immediate family.
Elder John Mamman, leader of the elders’ forum, in a press statement issued to journalists in Jalingo expressed shock over the military’s action against the council chairman.
The statement read in part: “We are calling on the Chief of Army Staff to, as a matter of urgency, order the release of our chairman from the army detention. It’s unlawful to detain an executive council chairman without telling his people what are his offenses.
“We thought the chairman was invited to the Barrack for questioning over the ongoing crisis between Fulani and Kuteb which have been wrangling within the area for some weeks.
“Within the four days of his detention, any time we go to ask what is happening with him or what has he done, they always chase us out without telling us anything. They have seized his phones; we cannot communicate with him nor see him. We are worried and we want to know why he is being detained.”
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